Good morning. All right, look in your New Testament way in the back. The letter to the Galatians. If you're new to our church, or newer, you are learning that we are often teaching verse by verse through a specific book of the Bible, or I'll teach verse by verse through a chapter, or we'll do something like that. Then we'll change it up and preach on some biblical topics and go back to this kind of exegetical teaching. But today, we begin our verse-by-verse study through the letter of Galatians. It has six chapters. It is a shorter letter in the Bible, and it's going to, I think I'll finish preaching it in 2028, because we're going to do chapter one this fall. We're going to do chapters two and three next year, and then probably four, five, and six in 2028. So here we go. If you're new to us, we are going to start verse by verse through a book. And what I do is I'll take it chapter by chapter and give the chapter a title, and the title for chapter one is No Other Gospel, Getting the Message Right. And so while you're finding Galatians in your Bible, let me just take care of one housekeeping duty, and that is if you like what you see and what you feel and what you experience on Sunday mornings, it's kind of the front door to our church. It's very important. The ordinary means of grace happen in this room, but it's not all that we are, and it's not the best way to be discipled in our ministry. The best way is to get in one of our small groups. We love rows, but circles are better. And so my wife Angie and I are overseeing our small group ministry right now. It's robust. We've got lots of groups. We have room for you, and we want to get you in a small group so you can make some friends and see what Christian community is like. You need more Jesus than just an hour and a half on Sunday morning. You need a midweek recharge, and our small groups are designed to do that. And so on your ministry card there, you can just say, hey, mark that box that says help me find a small group. Make sure I've got a name and a phone number or a name and an email address, and we will get you going with that. It's awesome. I even had at one of my small groups this week, we had a young lady who I'd never met. She came with a friend, and she said, I've never been to church before. So when I visit your church, it'll be the first time. And so I'm excited about that kind of thing, right? You never know what God's going to do. And so here we go. Galatians 1. Did you find it? Okay, we good? Well, in the early 1500s, long time ago, there's an English scholar named William Tyndale. Have you heard of him? William Tyndale? William Tyndale became convinced that ordinary people needed to be able to read the Bible, the Word of God, for themselves. Do you think that's a good thing? Well, back then, no one got to do it. So there was one problem. Translating and distributing the Bible in English could cost William Tyndale his life. It was illegal. So Tyndale left the British Isles, and he worked in exile in Europe, translating the New Testament from the Greek. And then copies were printed on the European continent and smuggled back into England. So that made William Tyndale a fugitive and a wanted man. Finally, in 1535, he was betrayed by a good friend, he thought was a good friend. He was arrested, and he was imprisoned near Brussels, Belgium. The next year, he was officially condemned as a heretic. They strangled him. They strangled the life out of him at the stake and burned his body as a warning. Years earlier, Tyndale had written about the possibility of his own death and his quest to bring the Scriptures to the common person. In modern English, here's what he said. If they burn me, they will only be doing what I expected. My question is, why would a man risk that much to put the Scripture into the hands of others? And the reason is, William Tyndale understood something important. This message belongs to God, and we don't get to hide it. We don't get to try to change it. We don't get to soften it. We don't get to seek to improve it. Our job is to... [00:48:00 - 00:56:00] faithfully pass it on. That's why evangelical churches all over the world today on this Lord's Day are teaching from the Bible. Now, nearly 1,500 years before William Tyndale, some guy named the Apostle Paul picked up a pen to defend the same basic issue, to answer the question, who gets to determine the message? Paul had traveled through this region called Galatia. It wasn't a nation, it was a group of city-states. He was traveling through Galatia, preaching the gospel and starting churches. The result of that was people heard the good news, they believed it, and their lives were being changed and there were churches being planted. But after Paul left, because he could only be in one place at one time, other teachers came along and sneaked in and got leadership in the Galatian churches and basically said, Paul didn't give you the whole story. They taught that faith in Jesus was important, but faith in Jesus was not enough. In other words, to really be right with God, they said, you also needed to keep the Mosaic Jewish law and the Jewish daily practices. And I've got to tell you, that little addition changed everything. Because the moment that you add something to Jesus as necessary for salvation, you're no longer talking about the same gospel. These law teachers also attacked Paul's credibility. They said to the members of the Galatian churches, why should you listen to him? He wasn't even one of the original 12 apostles. Who gave him the authority to tell you what the gospel is? So this epistle, this letter of Galatians, answers two questions that belong together. The first question is, who gave Paul this message? And the second question is, what is the true gospel? That's why when you read Galatians, it has an edge to it. Paul calls them names, and he says they've all been bewitched, and he calls them fools. He has an edge to it because Paul believes the gospel is at stake. And the gospel is the hope of the world. And the local church is the steward of the gospel, which is the hope of the world. So that raises an uncomfortable question for us. What if the version of Christianity that you currently believe didn't really come from God? And I'm not talking about a message that's completely wrong. I mean one that's slightly adjusted. Would you even know? If the source is off, the message is off. And if the message is off, everything built on it is compromised. So Paul doesn't make a calm introduction to this letter. We're going to read the introduction today. Instead, this is a defense in the middle of a fight. So let's read it. Galatians 1, verses 1-5. Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead. And all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia, grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. The word of the Lord. Father in heaven, help me to say it right. Help us to be eager to receive the truth of the scriptures. Let us apply this to our lives. Lord, begin to carve away all the rough edges on us that don't look like Jesus. Save sinners today, God, and equip the saints and glorify Jesus. This is our prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, who's risen from the dead and Lord of all. And everybody said, Amen. All right, five verses, four truths the apostle Paul gives us in this text. Truth number one, the gospel has a divine source. One of the objections in the marketplace by those who don't believe is they say, Christians, why do you believe the Bible? It's just a collection of stories that are ancient, written and made up by men. But that's not the testimony of the scriptures themselves. Verses one and two, Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ. And God, the father who raised him from the dead and all the brethren who are with me to the churches of Galatia. Right out of the gate, Paul answers the question, who sent this message? And his answer is crystal clear. Not from men, not through man, but through Jesus Christ. In other words, do you understand what Paul's telling the Galatian churches? He's saying, I didn't make this up. I didn't borrow it. I certainly didn't improve it. I received it. And Paul's going to make that even clearer a few verses later in chapter one. Not part of our text today, but let's read it anyway. Galatians 1, 11 and 12. But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ. Paul's not saying, I'm going to need all of you people to put some respect on my name. Instead, he's saying, you're not rejecting me when you alter the message that I preach to you. You're rejecting the one who sent me. He is clarifying to the Galatian believers that the gospel that he laid down in their churches when he planted them did not come from a church vote or a council. It didn't come from a leadership mentor that Paul met along the way. It did not arise from a grassroots effort and movement. He says, what I proclaim to you came from the Lord Jesus personally. This message was not secondhand. It came from my personal encounter with the risen Christ. And you can read about it in Acts chapter 9. You can read about it elsewhere in some of his letters. And I want you to observe how Paul describes the God who sent him. He says, God the Father who raised him from the dead. Hey, do we still believe in the resurrection around here? Is Jesus still alive? That wasn't made up so we could have a holiday to eat chocolate and search for Easter eggs, is it? Now, all that's fun, but that's not what... Is Jesus alive right now? Are you banking your eternity on it? God the Father who raised him from the dead. We don't make any apology that we believe that a dead man was hung on a cross and three days later he was alive again. [00:56:00 - 01:04:00] Everything that we believe hinges on it. The resurrection means that God has begun something new. Jesus did not just come back from the dead to make a good story. His resurrection announced the beginning of a new creation, a new world, a new life, the next world. Jesus is the first citizen in the new heavens and the new earth. And this takes us right back to William Tyndale. You see, when the message belongs to God, the messenger doesn't get to rewrite it. So may I ask you plainly today, is your understanding of the gospel shaped more by the scriptures or more by the world around you and your own ambition and your own hopes and dreams for your family life? If we're not careful, we won't reject the gospel outright. We'll just slowly reshape it to suit our own choices and preferences. The gospel, my brothers and sisters, is not ours to update. Jude verse 3 calls it the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. So what do we do with this gospel? We receive it. We believe it. And we proclaim it. The gospel has a divine source. Truth number two, the gospel delivers what you can't produce. I'm getting ready to read a verse that sounds a whole lot like the way Paul greeted all the churches in his letters. And I'm going to ask you not to speed past it. Verse 3, grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. That's the standard greeting in Paul's letters. But will you trust your pastor? It's loaded. It's pregnant with meaning. This isn't just how Paul says hello. This is how Christians survive, by grace and peace. Let me define those two terms for you in case you don't know. The best definition for grace in the Bible, I think, originates in 2 Samuel chapter 9, the Bible story of King David and Mephibosheth. I said that perfectly. I worked on that. David and Mephibosheth. Do you remember this story? David's on his throne. He's reigning. Everything's going great. Probably the best time in his kingship. And he looks around and he just announces to his courtiers, is there anyone left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan's sake? Now the house of Saul, all Saul's descendants, had become enemies of David. Saul tried to kill David. Saul had a son named Jonathan who happened to be David's best friend. David dispatches of Saul's house sovereignly by God. But he looks around later and he goes, is there anybody left? Is there anybody left of Saul's descendants that I can honor Jonathan with? If you move that to the New Testament, give it some New Testament language, and you make a composite of God's grace, I think the best definition for grace is this. Grace is the favor of God shown to those who forfeited all claim on that favor, shown for the sake of Jesus. David wanted to show kindness to some random descendant of Saul because he loved Jonathan and wanted to honor Jonathan. And God wanted to show his kindness to his enemies, us, because he wanted to show favor and honor to Jesus whom he loved. And this is how we get grace. We are unapologetically and unblinkingly a Jesus is Lord church. And we think that we should talk about Jesus all the time and sing about him and read about him and pray to him and want to be like him. Jesus is God and Jesus is Lord. And God shows you his favor because of how awesome Jesus is. Grace. You know what peace is? Peace in the Old Testament is shalom. You know shalom? Shalom and Solomon have the same root in the Old Testament language. And Solomon's name was Prince of Peace. He was the precursor of a more important Prince of Peace, the Lord Jesus. Shalom. So what is the peace of God? It's that settled relationship with God that you could never achieve on your own. Hey, look at me. I hardly ever doubt that I'm a Christian. Because through the cross, I've been made at peace with God and that relationship settled. I understand that Jesus is a good giver and not a liar. Do you? And when Jesus said that he gives me eternal life and he's going to raise me up at the last day, I believe him. It's settled. I have peace. I'm not a doubter. That has nothing to do with me being a pastor. It has nothing to do with me being a veteran Christian and doing this for a long time. And it has everything to do with what the Bible says. And they told me when I first became a Christian in July of 1989, Trevor, read your Bible and believe it. And I did it. And when I believed it, what I believed is what Jesus said about me. And so if you're a doubter, if you're double-minded, the cure to that is believing what Jesus has said. I trust his character, not mine. This is how Paul describes it in Romans 5.1. Therefore, having been justified by faith. Do we remember justified? Declared not guilty in God's courtroom. It's just as if I had never sinned. Because God has declared me not guilty by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. I wonder if you have this grace and peace. Hey, listen to me. Before the gospel changes how you feel, it changes how you stand before God. Grace is God acting toward you with undeserved favor. And now we've learned that peace is not something that you manufacture by yourself. It's this settled relationship with God that Jesus has secured for you. So here's the order, and it matters. You don't get peace first. You get grace, and then peace follows. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you understand that false religion flips that? And I don't care if it's a false religion that speaks about Jesus in affectionate tones. Any religious system that says Jesus is good, and if you'll have Jesus and add this work to it, this baptism, this... It doesn't really matter. The Jews would add circumcision. Any work, Jesus plus anything, it's false, and you should leave that group. Because false religion says make peace, and then you'll get grace. Make peace, work harder, be better, be a better version of you, fix yourself, and then maybe you'll be accepted. You know what I learned last week? In the Quran, Islam's... [01:04:00 - 01:12:00] It never says that Allah loves you. So even in that false religion, you don't even have a God who's appealing. You have a God who needs to be appeased. Now, Allah is a false God. He's a Canaanite God. And so I'm not surprised that he doesn't care for his subjects because he belongs to the kingdom of Satan, yes? Islam is a threat. Muslims are a mission field. Do you know the difference? I want, and I'm so relieved that the scriptures show me, a God that says, hey, look, I know you're a screw-up, but I love you anyway. I know what's in your heart, and you know what's in your heart, and I'll trade what's in my heart for what's in your heart. You want to make that trade? Yes, I do. I want the peace that comes after the grace. Martin Luther, the leader of the Protestant Reformation, knew that version of Christianity firsthand because before he was a great reformer, he was a monk. He lived in a monastery, and he threw himself into religious discipline. He was trying to quiet a guilty conscience, and he was trying to do that by trying harder and doing more to please an angry God. Well, years later, when Martin Luther wrote his Bible commentary on the book of Galatians, and he came to this verse, grace to you and peace, here's how he beautifully commented on it. He notes, for clarity, grace remits sin. Peace quiets the conscience. You see, Luther learned that the hard way, that you can't work your way into peace with God because peace always comes after grace in the scriptures. Hey, can we talk? How exhausted are you from trying to create peace in your own life? How tired? How tired are you of trying to be good enough? How weary are you of trying to clear your own conscience, and you're trying to settle that inner sense that something just isn't right? Are you tired? Because the reason it's not working is simple. Peace in the Bible, shalom, doesn't come from your effort. It comes from God's grace. It's a gift, a gift available to you if you'll receive it by faith and repentance today. The gospel delivers something you can't produce. Truth number three. The gospel is a rescue mission. Who's fired up? Galatians 1.4. Who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father. My brothers and my sisters, this is the heart of the gospel. Jesus gave himself. Well, look at me. Gave himself for what? Our sins. Why did he give of himself for our sins? Look at me. To deliver us. Everybody say deliver us. That word means rescue. It means to pull someone out of danger, the kind of danger they cannot escape on their own. I was born in the 70s. I was raised in the 80s, and I'm stuck in the 80s. And I'm proud to tell you that. If you're too young to remember the 80s, stinks to be you. I hate that you missed it. The 80s was awesome. We had the best music. Still have the best music. Everybody still plays our music. We had the best movies. We had telephones, not cell phones. You know the difference? The telephone was on the wall or on like the nightstand, and it had a cord. And if you were like a teenager in the 80s like me, you needed that cord to be long so you could go walk in the room, right? Walk in the room, close the door, so you can talk to your girlfriend. Is that just me? No? Then we had to hang up. And then call waiting happened, and we didn't know what to do with that. I mean, I'm sorry, I'm getting another call. You just got to hang on. Do you remember this? So the 80s were awesome. And so my best sermon illustrations are from the 80s. So some of you are old enough to remember baby Jessica. Do you remember? The reason that old people remember this is we had three TV channels. ABC, NBC, CBS. And anytime there was something dramatic happening, they all went, and so we just all watched. The whole nation watched baby Jessica. 1987. By the way, something else happened in 1987. I went to my first ever youth conference retreat, and I found out that church could be cool. And the guy that preached, preached from a blue NFL jersey with white, and I said, one day. One day I'm going to do that. You're here to see it. However many years later, 1987, 18-month-old Jessica McClure fell down an abandoned well in Midland, Texas. We remember? She became trapped about 22 feet down, two stories down, underground, in a space about eight inches wide. She was down there for 58 hours, more than two days. Imagine her mom and dad. Well, we all watched. Rescuers discovered they couldn't climb down the well. It was too narrow. It was baby size. So they drilled another shaft beside the well, and they tunneled sideways to the well through solid bedrock. And they tunneled sideways to reach the girl, and finally a paramedic crawled through that tunnel. Are you claustrophobic yet? And he worked the baby, Jessica Luce, and they brought that little girl up, and it was at night, and they had those big spotlights you could see. And they brought this girl. She's dirty. She's crying. They brought her to the surface alive. It was awesome. It's like the whole world cheered in that moment. But for the purposes of this sermon illustration, I want you to think about this. You could have watched all 58 hours of that coverage. You know what nobody did? Nobody stood at the top of the well and shouted instructions to an 18-month-old. Nobody said, Hey, Jessica, here's what you need to do. Come on, baby. Try harder. Climb better. Mommy loves you. Follow these three steps. She couldn't get herself out. She didn't need advice. She needed rescue. And that's what Paul says Jesus came to do for you. Do you understand that the Lord Jesus did not stand at a distance and tell us how to climb our way back to God? He came down to rescue us. Praise Jesus. And let's be honest. We don't naturally think of ourselves as needing to be rescued. We're strong Americans. We think, you know, I need some help. I need some direction. I need to do better. But the Scriptures say something far more direct. You don't need assistance. You need saving. And that's the mistake in the Galatian churches. They were adding religious [01:12:00 - 01:20:00] assistance to a rescue that Jesus had already accomplished. And I want you to remember this. Christ didn't send something. And Christ didn't offer something. He gave himself. Isn't it good news that Jesus not only saves you from hell later, and aren't we glad, right? Don't want to go there. But Jesus rescues you from the rule of this broken age now. And it's only getting worse in our culture. Hey, we're so much under the judgment of God that we now humanize pets and dehumanize babies. Isn't that right? Jesus predicted that near the end, the love of those would grow cold. Did you know that his victory is your victory? You may still live in this world, but you no longer belong to it. Man, I'm glad that I'm broken free from this world system. And that's what Paul means by this present evil age. The resurrection of Jesus means that God's new creation has already begun. We're getting like the first taste of the new world in the next life. We're still living in the old broken world, but if you belong to Jesus, the old world no longer owns you. That would be enough for me to give my life to Christ today to know that. Here's how I know. He says, when you come to know him, you switch kingdoms. Colossians 1, 13 and 14. Paul writes, Jesus has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the son of his love in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins. I have changed kingdoms and I have changed ownerships and Jesus is now my king. What about you? Have you received the gospel as rescue or have you reduced it to good advice? Because if it's just advice, you'll try harder all the time. But if it's rescue, you'll surrender. The gospel is a rescue mission. Truth number four, the gospel is about God's glory. Here's verse five, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Look, we can't celebrate Jesus enough. We can't praise him enough. We can't point to him enough. We can't say enough superlatively nice things and great things about him. To him be glory forever and ever. Paul ends where everything else is supposed to end, the glory of God. That means that the cross was not just about your salvation, it was about God's glory being put on display. Look at what he thought up. Look at how he's done it. Look at what his idea was to make us right with him. And listen to the language of Isaiah the prophet. Isaiah 42, 8. He says, I am the Lord, I am Yahweh. That is my name and my glory I will not give to another. Isn't it true that God doesn't share the credit for salvation with anyone else because no one else accomplished it? If salvation starts with God, if it's accomplished by God, if it is applied by God, then who gets the credit? Not us, not our effort, not our discipline, not our goodness, not our improvement. God gets it all. And the apostle Paul wrote about this magnificently in Romans 11, 36. He says, for of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever. Amen. Did you know that the gospel is not a story about how we made impressive decisions at the right time? It's a story about how merciful Jesus is. So when you look at the cross, you're not only seeing Jesus, you're seeing the heart of the Father. Do you understand that Jesus did not die to convince God to love you because God already did? Oh, his loving kindness. And here's what I wonder, where's all this history headed? What's the last book of the Bible? Revelation. Turn to Revelation 5. Take a right in your Bible and go way over there. Revelation 5. On the screen I'll have verses 12 and 13, but I'm going to read verse 11 also. So Revelation looks into the future and says one day we're going to be around the throne in heaven somehow. Lots of us. Like all the believers from both Old and New Testament. All of the things God created to be with him in heaven. The living creatures and the angels and then a group called the elders. Not our guys, I love them, but this is a different group of elders. And there's a throng. There's a multitude. And we're going to sing and declare his glory. And it goes something like this. Revelation 5, 11 to 13. John says, Then I looked and I heard the voice of many angels. How big of a number is many to God? I heard the voice of many angels around the throne. The living creatures. Aren't you kind of interested in what God considers a creature? And the elders. And the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000 and thousands of thousands. Can we agree that's a truckload? And all of those say with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb. Who do they talk about in heaven? Jesus. Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. Look back over that list and tell me which of those things is Jesus not due and worthy of? Anything in that list that he has disqualified himself from? And then every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth, so I guess that brings us into it, such as are in the sea and all that are in them, I heard saying, Blessing and honor and glory and power be to him who sits on the throne. Daniel calls him the Ancient of Days. And to the Lamb, that's Jesus, the Son of Man, forever and ever. Do you understand that the gospel begins with grace and it ends with the glory of heaven? Let me press that with us just a little. Does your version of Christianity make much of you and your family and your goals and your dreams and your plans? Or does it make much of God? Because the real gospel always shifts the spotlight away from us and onto him. Now I'm going to pat my back before I get through preaching. Can I do that? Here's how I'm going to pat my back. When I say in conclusion, [01:20:00 - 01:28:00] always meant it in this church. I have never meant, and in conclusion, I'm going to preach another 10 minutes. I'm about to say the words in conclusion, and then I'm going to end this thing fast. And so if you've been sleeping, you got like, I don't know, 49 more seconds or something like that. 49 seconds in how I count. All right. In conclusion, everybody ready? I'm going to leave you with the question we started with. Who sent the message that you're believing? Because if it sounds anything like this, I'm basically a good person, I just need to try harder. Or if it sounds anything like this, I need to clean myself up and then God will accept me. Or if it sounds anything like this, it doesn't really matter what I believe as long as I'm sincere. If that's in your worldview in any way, that's not the gospel, that's a counterfeit, and you need to start over. Because here's what matters. Did your gospel come from God and not man? Because the gospel of God says you can't earn his grace, you can't manufacture peace, and you can't save yourself. Jesus Christ gave himself for our sins to rescue us. So can you just stop trying to make yourself acceptable to God? That's an exercise in futility. Can you stop trusting in your own goodness? That doesn't work. Instead, receive what Jesus has already done for you. That's the gospel. Have you received it? And yet, to all who received him, even to those who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. Until you receive this message and respond by faith and repentance, God is not your father, he's your enemy, and you're in big trouble. But because of Jesus, that can be reversed, and you can become a child of God on the merits of what he did for you on the cross. Has that ever happened to you? I want you to think about that as we pray. Father, I can't believe that I get to preach this gospel. It's such a privilege for us as saints and believers to gather around this every week and to encourage ourselves in you that through the gospel you've rescued us. Thank you, God. And now I pray that you won't let the enemy steal the words that have been preached from this Bible today before they get to the parking lot. God, I pray you'll disturb those who don't know you so that they'll receive the good news. And God, that you'll encourage the brokenhearted in this room because of what you've overcome and the victory that you won for us. Lord Jesus, we praise you in your name. Amen. Will you stand to your feet? Are you glad that you came today? I'm glad that you came. Prayer team, will you come to the front so we can pray for those after the service that'll be ready? If I could ask a favor of some of the men in the room, we're going to need some help stacking chairs and clearing this room out for a meeting immediately after this. So would you help us while others are being prayed for? That would be so helpful. It'll go fast if a bunch of you guys will help. You know, you probably passed by 10 or 12 churches on the way over here today. Thank you for coming here. If you're a member, I don't thank you. You're supposed to be here. But we're glad to see you. We love you guys. To the mission field you go, the prayer lines are open.

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